This led the Committee to direct the management of the Central Bank of Nigeria (the «CBN») to work with Nigerian Banks to promptly address rising non-performing loans,
declining asset quality, credit concentration and high foreign exchange exposures.
Not exact matches
However, banks»
asset quality exceeded analysts» expectations, with the financial sector's NPL ratio
declining from a peak of 1.63 % in March - April 2009 to 1.29 % at the end of November.
Despite increased concerns about
asset quality among Vietnamese banks, ACB chipped away at NPLs, with its NPL ratio
declining from 0.9 % to 0.41 %, compared to the average NPL rate for the entire Vietnamese banking system of 2.46 %.
Thailand is coping with a period of financial stress associated with falling
asset prices and
declining loan
quality in the banking system.
Gross profits from operations as a fraction of
assets [GP / A] is a good measure of the
quality of an industry, and whether their sustainable competitive advantage is is improving or
declining.
They also maintain a short position against the broad stock market to hedge against a market
decline and invest the majority of their
assets in cash alternatives and high
quality, short - term fixed income securities.
In general, lenders are more concerned about the value of company
assets than earnings
quality because in the case of earnings
decline, the company can sell
assets.
Total returns for the NCREIF Property Index (NPI)-- a widely used investment performance benchmark for institutional -
quality real estate
assets published by the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries —
declined 5.2 % in the second quarter after dipping 7.3 % in the first quarter.
Moody's Investors Service reports that U.S. commercial real estate prices
declined in April, but high -
quality assets are doing very well.
Moody's Investors Service is reporting that U.S. commercial real estate prices
declined by 3.7 percent during the month of April, as distressed prices masked the price recovery seen in larger, higher -
quality assets.